News & Views Jacinda Ardern to join Australia’s national cabinet meeting on Tuesday New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will be phoning in to Australia’s national cabinet meeting on Tuesday to discuss COVID-19 responses.
News & Views Learning to float when swimming is too hard When swimming is too hard because the waters are rough and the shore is far away Dr Neela Janakiramanan writes it’s not a failure to float. It’s survival.
News & Views How Dr Annaliese van Diemen’s tweet became ‘The biggest issue of the day’ for some We’re in the midst of a pandemic, but in Victoria the big story is Dr Annaliese van Diemen and her twitter account.
News & Views Forget what you’ve been told, COVID-19 does discriminate – just ask Australian women A phrase that has been repeated again and again by leaders throughout the COVID-19 crisis is that the disease doesn’t discriminate. But this is not true.
News & Views Hillary Clinton backs Joe Biden but faces a wave of criticism On Tuesday night, Joe Biden held a livestream event to highlight women’s issues during the coronavirus pandemic as part of his presidential campaign.
News & Views Why more leading ‘like a girl’ will help us rebuild better Dr Karen Struthers says we must now focus on how we rebuild for better after the pandemic. She says more leaders leading ‘like a girl’ will help.
News & Views ‘We have done it together’: Jacinda Ardern on New Zealand’s extraordinary COVID-19 win New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says there is no longer any undetected community transmission of COVID-19 in the country.
News & Views Family Court to triage family violence matters within 72 hours The Family Court will be able to triage urgent parenting disputes relating to children within 72 hours in a newly-designated COVID-19 list.
News & Views The government releases COVID19 tracing app Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy has predicted a more than 50% take-up of the new “COVIDSafe” app, writes Michelle Grattan.
News & Views 75% of the UK’s NHS workers are women. But average hospital protective-wear designed for the average man Startling reports uncover personal protective equipment currently used in the UK are fitting only the “size and shape of male bodies”.
News & Views COVID19 is nearly 10 times more deadly in Sweden than other Nordic countries Three Nordic countries have flattened the curve & have female prime ministers. Sweden hasn’t and doesn’t. Its recorded death rate is 10 times higher.
News & Views The problem with ‘one visitor per patient’ for women giving birth Many pregnant women in Australia are going through this process alone, and for some, while also experiencing long-term social or economic disadvantage.